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remarks of the President at Julia Carson rally - Indiana
(Indianapolis, Indiana)
For Immediate Release                October 21, 2000
AT RALLY FOR REPRESENTATIVE JULIA CARSON
Indianapolis State Fairgrounds
10:48 A.M. CDT
THE PRESIDENT:  Wow!  (Applause.)  I'll tell you why I came here,
because Julia Carson asked me, and I always do whatever she asks me to do.
(Laughter and applause.)  Because I learned very early I could do it right
away or I could just wait and let her grind on me until I finally broke
down and said yes.  So I just say yes right away to Julia now -- (laughter)
-- and it solves a lot of my problems.  (Applause.)
Mr. Mayor, I'm glad to be back here in your city, and I'm very
proud that you are now the Mayor of this great city.  (Applause.)  And I
want to thank my longtime friend, Jeff Smillion (phonetic) for helping
Julia Carson.  We were friends before I ran for President, before I knew I
was going to run for President I met him.  He was just -- I was just what
President Bush used to refer to as the governor of a small southern state
-- (laughter) -- when we became friends.  And I thank you for helping
Julia.  (Applause.)
Joe Andrew, I am so proud of you.  He's got that riff down,
doesn't he, old Joe does.  (Applause.)  I kind of wanted to run down here
along the side and pass the plate when he was up there preaching.
(Laughter.)  We knew he was preaching to the saved, and so I thought we
ought to take up an offering here.  (Laughter.)
Let me say, I'm really proud of what the Democrats have done in
Indiana.  I'm proud of your great Governor -- (applause) -- and I want you
to make sure he gets reelected.  He deserves to be reelected.  (Applause.)
And I am very, very proud of your former Governor, Senator Evan Bayh, and
what a great job he has done.  (Applause.)  We have also been friends for
many, many years.
So this is a great day for me, to come here to thank the people
from Indiana who have sent such fine people into public office --
AUDIENCE:      We love you, Mr. President!  (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT:  -- and who have given us Julia Carson, who is
truly one of a kind.  Have you ever met anybody like Julia before in your
whole life?
AUDIENCE:  Noo!
THE PRESIDENT:  I tell this joke -- she's talking about what a
unifying force the Democratic Party is -- Julia has got it all inside her.
I told somebody, she may be an African American woman, but she reminds me
of a redneck county judge when she works the room -- (laughter) -- she kind
of sidles into these rooms in Washington, and all these self-important
people are there in their expensive suits, using these big words.  And then
Julia sort of sidles out and she's got whatever it is she came in for, and
they still don't know what happened.  (Laughter.)  I mean, it's amazing,
you know.  She's like a stealth bomber for Indiana in Washington.
She's got more moves than Larry Bird and Isaiah Thomas put
together.  She's got moves, man, people don't see that stuff.  So, yes, I
wanted to come here.  I'm sorry I couldn't come before.  You know what I
was doing -- I was working on the peace process.  (Applause.)  But now --
wait a minute -- I want to say a couple of things seriously.  We're all
having a good time, but we all agree with each other, or you wouldn't be
here.  And here's what I want to say to you.
First, thank you.  Thank you for helping me have a chance to
serve the country for the last eight years.  I'm grateful to you.
(Applause.)  Second, I have been reading as much as I could, while I've
been running around the world and trying to get the Congress out of town,
too -- I've been reading what I could about what the experts are saying
about this election.  And they say it's tight as ticks, and they say that
there are a lot of undecided voters, and they say that there are a lot of
voters who aren't sure what the differences are and what the consequences
are to them, so maybe it doesn't matter for whom they vote or whether they
Now, let me tell you something.  I've done everything I could do
for eight years to turn this country around, pull this country together,
and move the country forward.  (Applause.)  Everything I could do.  But in
America, our public life is always about tomorrow.  Always about -- that's
why we're still around here, after 224 years, because we're always thinking
about tomorrow.  Now, look at where we were eight years ago and where we
are now, and ask yourselves where we're going to go.  I'm telling you, this
is a huge election.  You cannot afford for anybody to think that there
aren't any differences and it doesn't matter whether they vote or for whom
they vote.
And the interesting thing about this election to me is, from the
elections for President and Vice President to the United States Senate --
and you know I've got a passing interest in that Senate race up in New
York, I know something about that -- (laughter) -- to the races for
governor and for Congress, all over the country you see the same things --
there are big differences; the differences will have real consequences; and
only the Democrats want you to know what the differences are.  What does
that tell you about who you ought to vote for?  (Applause.)
I see it everywhere.  So you've got the other side trying to
cloud the differences and blur them, and we have to clarify them.  And I
just want to say, look, eight years ago the country was in the ditch
economically.  Eight years later, we've got the longest economic expansion
in history, the lowest unemployment in 30 years, 22 million new jobs, the
lowest African American and Hispanic unemployment ever measured --
(applause) -- the lowest poverty rate in 20 years, the biggest drop in
child poverty in 34 years.  (Applause.)
Now, I got tickled -- you know, when our Republican friends were
in, they took credit for everything that happened in America.  They took
credit when the sun came up.  (Laughter.)  One of their campaigns was,
"it's morning in America."  The sun came up in the morning, give it to us,
we did it.  (Laughter.)  Now, everything that happens happens by accident.
Did you listen to these debates?  I thought Al Gore's best moment in the
first debate was when his opponent said, I think Clinton-Gore got more out
of the economy than the economy got out of Clinton-Gore.  The American
people did this, you know, we just sort of were there.  And Al Gore said,
well, you know, the American people did do this, but they were working hard
eight years ago, too, and they weren't doing nearly as well.  (Applause.)
So the first big question is, do you want to continue the
prosperity, build on it, expand on it, to people and places that have been
left behind, and lift up this whole country?  (Applause.)  Now, you've got
to talk to people, because how could anybody not see this?  Look, they're
offering a tax cut that's three times the size of the one that we're
offering.  But most people making under $100,000 are better off under our
proposal than theirs -- tax cuts to pay for college education, long-term
care, child care, retirement savings, to get people to invest in the
communities that have been left behind.
Now, theirs is three times bigger.  And then they want to
partially privatize Social Security, which means -- forget about whether
you think it's a good idea or not, let's just talk about the arithmetic.
There are a lot of problems with the idea, but forget about that, talk
about the arithmetic.  Everybody here under 40 -- let's say, under 45 --
can take 2 percent of your Social Security payroll tax, keep it and put it
in an investment account.  Everybody like me, starting next year, who will
be 65 or over, gets a guarantee we're going to get it, just like they
always promised it.  Now, where's the money going to come from if you take
away the money that they're going to pay my guarantee with?  They've got to
take that out of the surplus, too.
So they've got a tax cut three times bigger than ours, a
trillion-dollar promise in Social Security to pay for the privatization,
hundreds of billions of dollars in other promises.  Look, folks, you need
to tell people -- they want to know why we did well in America, because we
brought arithmetic back to Washington.  We made the numbers add up.  These
numbers don't add up.  (Applause.)
And, look, this is a big deal.  If you vote for a tax cut that
big, and you privatize Social Security at a trillion dollars, you spend
several hundred billion dollars of it, you're back in deficit.  And do you
know what that means?  High interest rates.  If you vote for Al Gore and
Joe Lieberman, Julia Carson, and our whole crowd, do you know what it
means?  You'll have interest rates about one percent lower a year for a
Let me tell you what that amounts to in a tax cut.  Listen to
this -- one percent lower interest rates:  $390 billion in lower home
mortgages; $30 billion in lower car payments; $15 billion in lower college
loan payments; lower credit card payments; lower business loans; means
higher profits, more folks getting hired, more pay raises, and a higher
stock market.  Our tax cut for all is low interest rates that keep this
economy going, and pay the debt off.  (Applause.)
Now, this is very important.  Did you watch the debate where
their guy says, our guy is for big government, we're for big government?
There's a real problem with that argument, besides the fact that it's not
true -- it's manifestly not true.  What do I mean by that?  The size of the
federal government today is the smallest it's been since 1960, when Dwight
Eisenhower was President and John Kennedy was running for President.  The
federal government spending as a percentage of our economy is the smallest
it's been since 1966.  Why is that?  We're paying down the debt.
The third biggest item in the budget for your tax money is the
debt -- after Social Security and defense, the debt is the third highest
sum in the budget.  So we get rid of that, we can spend more on education,
more on health care, pay for a tax cut, and still shrink the size of
government.  Vote for Al Gore and Joe Lieberman and Julia Carson, get the
country out of debt, keep interest rates down, keep the economy going, keep
moving forward.  That's the issue.  (Applause.)
Now, that's clear.  But don't all of you know a lot of people who
never will come to a rally like this?  You do, don't you?  You know, every
one of you, you know a lot of people who love their country and they're
going to vote on election day, but they'll never come to a rally like this.
You need to tell them just what I told you.
The first thing is, if you like the prosperity and you want to
keep it going, and you don't want us to go back into deficit, you've got to
vote with us.  We tried it their way for 12 years, we tried it our way for
eight years -- our way works better than their way.  We've got to keep
going.  (Applause.)
And now, the second thing I want to say is this.  If you look at
every other area of our national life, you'll find the same thing.
Welfare; the rolls have been cut in half.  Yes, if you're able-bodied and
you can work, you've got to go to work.  But we don't want you to hurt your
kids, so we want more for child care, for education and training, for
transportation.  And it works, our deal works.  Helping people be good
parents and good workers makes good sense.
That's why we were for the Family and Medical Leave law.  We
think it ought to be expanded.  Work and family.  (Applause.)  Our way
works.  (Applause.)
Crime -- what was our position on crime?  Not what they say.
They say we're weak on enforcement and all we want to do is take hunters'
guns away.  What a load of hooey.  (Laughter.)  You know, that's just a
bunch of bull.  (Laughter.)  It might stir people up and get them some
votes, but it has a real burden of being untrue.
What are the facts?  What was our approach?  Our approach was,
put more cops on the street to prevent crime in the first place.  Do more
to take guns out of the hands of children and criminals.  (Applause.)  You
can do that without interfering with the hunters and the sport shooters.
Give kids something to say yes to, give them an after-school program,
summer school program, and then punish the people that ought to be
punished.  Now, that's been our -- do you know what, now, look at the
record.  We have the lowest crime rate in 26 years, the lowest murder rate
in 33 years.  That is the record.
So what do they want to do?  They want to stop our efforts to
keep guns out of the hands of criminals and children.  They want to -- this
is an explicit commitment -- they want to repeal our efforts to put over
100,000 police on our streets.  And they just want to go back to talking
tough again.
Well, look, we tried it their way, we tried it our way; our way
works.  (Applause.)  And not a single Indiana hunter has missed a day in
the deer woods, not a sports person has missed a single sporting event, but
a half a million felons, fugitives and stalkers couldn't get a handgun
because of the Brady Bill.  It's a safer country, we're a better country.
Our way works.  (Applause.)  We tried it their way, we tried it our way --
our way works.  (Applause.)
You look at education.  Compared to eight years ago, test scores
are up, the dropout rate is down, the high school graduation rate is up,
the college-going rate is at an all-time high.  We went from 14 states to
49 states with strong academic standards that would be applied to all
students in all schools.  All states now have to identify schools that are
failing and try to find some way to turn them around.  So standards,
accountability, and resources to help people meet the standards    -- it's
working.  The teachers and the principals know how to turn around failing
schools now.
Now, we know how to do this.  We're finally moving this thing.
We've had a a two-thirds increase in the number of kids taking advance
placement tests, a 300 percent increase in Latino kids, a 500 percent
increase for African American kids taking advance placement tests to go to
college.  Now, we know what we're doing here.  (Applause.)
So what is Al Gore's program?  What's the Democratic program?
High standards and accountability, identify schools that are failing, and
within two years turn them around or shut them down and reopen them under
new management.  But help them -- 100,000 more teachers; funds to build or
modernize or repair schools; funds to train the teachers in the subjects
that they're supposed to be teaching; and making sure that kids get a tax
deduction for the cost of college tuition; and after-school and pre-school
programs for all the kids who need it.  (Applause.)
Why?  Not because we're against accountability and standards, but
because if you're going to lay standards on somebody, they've got to have a
chance to meet the standards.
Now, what is their program?  Their program is, accountability and
block grants to states, and if they spend the money, fine; if they don't,
fine; if they don't spend it well, we'll take it away from them.  So if the
schools get in trouble, our answer is spend even less on them.  That's
their side.
I think accountability-plus is better than accountability-minus.
And we've had eight years of experience; we're moving in the right
direction; our way works better than theirs.  The American people have to
choose that.  (Applause.)
The same thing is true with every other issue.  On the
environment, we've got cleaner air, cleaner water, safer food; 90 percent
of our kids immunized for the first time in history.  We have proved you
can grow the economy and clean up the environment.  And we set aside more
land than any administration since Theodore Roosevelt in permanent trust
for the American people.  (Applause.)
Al Gore says, vote for me and I'll build on that.  His opponent
says, vote for me and we'll relax some of their regulations; we'll get rid
of the President's order protecting 40 million acres in national forests,
we'll reduce some of these other things he's done, because you simply can't
do this much and grow the economy.
Now, look, we tried it their way.  Didn't we?  And then they came
in and tried to weaken the economy again; I vetoed it every time they tried
it the last five years.  (Applause.)  And wait a minute.  And you know, if
I were trying to hurt the economy, I've done a poor job of it.  (Laughter.)
So this is a serious deal.  You can grow the economy and improve
the environment.  And believe me, in the future, the challenges will be
bigger than the ones I've faced.  You can't turn around on this.  This is a
big deal.  This is a big deal.  So you've got to go tell people this.
You've got to say, look, look at where we were eight years ago, look at
where we are today.  The economy, crime, welfare, education, the
environment, health care -- we've got people without insurance, that
number, going down for the first time in a dozen years, because of the
Children's Health Insurance Program that we have proposed and gotten out
there and implemented.  (Applause.)
Now, the country is going in the right direction.  Now, here's
the last point I want to make.  You all were clapping when Joe Andrews did
his shtick, you know, we don't care whether you're old or young, whether
you walked in or wheeled in, and all that.  That's really who we are.  And
it's the only thing about us that's more important than the economic
policy, is that we think everybody counts, everybody ought to have a
chance, we all do better when we help each other.  That's what we believe.
Now, it's what I call one America.  But there are lots of these
one America issues out there, where there are real differences.  You can go
to your friends and neighbors and ask them with whom they agree.  Our side,
we're for raising the minimum wage; their side isn't.  Our side, we're for
stronger enforcement of equal pay laws for women, and their side isn't.
Our side -- (applause.)  Our side, we're for a Medicare prescription drug
program so that every senior who needs access to affordable medicine can
get it, and their side isn't.  (Applause.)
Our side, we're for hate crimes legislation that protects people
on the basis of race, gender, disability or sexual orientation from hate
crimes.  Nobody ought to be beat up, mauled, dragged or killed in this
country because of who they are, if they're obeying the law.  (Applause.)
And their side isn't.  (Applause.)
Now, that's it.  So here's the deal.  You can't let anybody not
vote, or sort of stray away, because they think there's no consequence
here, they think there are no differences here.  We've actually had quite a
nice election, free of personal recrimination, where we -- positive, that
both these candidates for President and for Vice President are good,
honorable, patriotic Americans who love their families and love their
country and they're going to do what they say they're going to do.
And I can tell you this -- you know, the press likes to say that
these politicians are always breaking their word, but the truth is every
study shows that most Presidents pretty well do what they say they're going
to do.  Once in a while they break their word, and usually we're thankful
they did.  (Laughter.)  Why?  Roosevelt said he'd balance the budget, and
that was a bad idea with 25 percent unemployment.  And we're thankful that
he gave us the New Deal instead.  Lincoln, to get elected, said he wouldn't
free the slaves, and we're awful glad he broke that promise.  (Applause.)
So once in a great while a guy gets elected President and has to
break a promise, and it makes -- but more often than not, Presidents do
what they say they're going to do.  You're going to have a very different
Supreme Court, depending on which one of them gets elected.  And it's not
just about the right to choose, although it is about that.  That will
change, depending on what happens.  It is also about the ability of the
Congress of the United States to protect working people.  There are all
these -- and ordinary citizens, for all kinds of things.  There's a
revolution here, a debate, going on on the Supreme Court, and some of them
want to go back to where they were in the 1930s --
THE PRESIDENT:  Now, you've got to decide.  But don't you let
anybody tell you that there are no differences.  And I just came out here
to say, you know, if Indiana can elect Evan Bayh and Frank O'Bannon back to
back, if Indianapolis can elect Bart Peterson, the first Democratic mayor
in a month of Sundays    -- (applause) -- if Indiana can send me Julia
Carson -- (applause) -- to drive me crazy until I say yes to whatever she's
asking -- (applause) -- if Indiana can provide us Joe Andrews, the spark
plug of our national revival of the Democratic Party -- (applause) -- all
of you, between now and election day, can find some people to talk to.
Look at all the people in this crowd here, this is a big crowd --
this crowd will talk to, collectively, 30,000-50,000-100,000 people between
now and election day.  Look around here.  There are lots of folks here.
Most of the people you will talk to will never come to an event like this.
But they will vote, if they think it matters.  And you need to go tell them
-- your friends in Illinois, your friends in Michigan, your friends in
Kentucky and all the states around here, all those states are big
battleground states --look, if you want to keep the prosperity going, their
deal won't pass the arithmetic test.  It doesn't add up.  You've got to
stick with us.  Look at where we were eight years ago and where we are now
on welfare, crime, the environment, education, health care.  We're moving
in the right direction.  Let's keep moving in the right direction.
Look at where we are on building one America, on hate crimes, on
equal pay for women, on all these other issues.  Look at this.  If you want
one America, if you want to move in the right direction, if you want to
keep the prosperity going, you've got one choice -- you've got to be for
our crowd:  Al Gore, Joe Lieberman, Frank O'Bannon, Julia Carson, the
people that helped to bring America back.  You can do it, Indiana.  Thank
you and God bless you.  Thank you.  (Applause.)
END       11:15 A.M. CDT


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Have you seen an abundance of arrows online of late?
Pinterest, Instagram, online stores, interior design sites… everywhere!
Not to be one left in the cold (aka. keeping up with the Jones') I decided to see if I could whittle one out of some of my scrap bits in the garage.
The problem here is not so much that I'm a follower – which is only partially the case – but moreso that I am totally and completely influenced by marketing messages. Bombard me with images of dog poop on a stick and eventually I'll either find a way to make my own or go to a shop and buy some.
Which is why I love marketing so much – I always try to frame things based on how and what would sell me.
Today it's wooden arrow wall art, tomorrow Nike Wraps (the no-toe shoes for yoga).
I digress, you want to see how mine turned out right?
I still had/have some 1″ cedar planks left in my garage from the deck demo at my friend Steph's. Most of them are bits and pieces and not really enough to build large projects, so I messed around and come up with some measurements…. this is my DIY wood arrows tutorial (for better or for worse).
I laid out my scrap wood and found a combination that seemed the right size. These boards are 5.5″ wide, so I cut the centre one (22″ long) down the centre so I had two 2 3/4″ boards.
Next I put a smaller piece of scrap wood across the top of the narrow one and chose a size that looked proportionate – in this case, I cut a 5.5″ square.
I marked the centre of the square and then cut two angles from that point to the lower corners of the board to create my arrow. I'm sorry I didn't write down the angles, but my sides measured 6″, 6″ by the 5.5″ base.
I cut down another piece of scrap wood – not quite in half, because I wanted the 'feathers' to be differing widths. You can see in the photo below that one is slightly wider than the other.
I angled my 'feathers' to where I thought they'd look good and then laid the 22″ piece over top and marked a line. If you want yours exactly like mine, the angle for these cuts is 42 degrees.
Once they were cut, I lined them up with the centre and then determined how long I'd like them to be, then marked a straight line (parallel to the centre) and marked it. These ended up being 4″ long – with the same angle as before – at 42 degrees.
I used my Kreg Jig to drill pocket holes into the centre section shooting towards the arrow tip and then in each feather, aiming towards the centre piece.
Glue and screw into place.
I just repeated the process to create the second arrow from the second half of the 22″ piece of wood.
I sanded them down to remove the old deck stain and sealer.
Then added a light coat of matte varnish – which you really don't need to do if you're working with cedar. In hindsight, I would have skipped this step and just let them age again naturally.
I added small hooks on the back and then hung them on the wall.
This is a visual metaphor of my life… I don't know whether I'm coming or going most days.
If you want, you can add hooks to the front of these and use them as a coat rack, or mug rack – or even add another piece of wood and use them as shelves.
If you have a big enough closet, these would make great decor in there because moths hate cedar. You'd be decorating and prolonging the life of your clothing!
Great job. I love the arrows, another something to add to my walls!
You can never have too much rustic goodness right?! lol Thanks for commenting.
I love the "Coming and Going" remark and will be passing that along to a very busy daughter..lol! Good job!


A new way to think of something, which is a gamechanger.
Video on demand is killing the digital establishment. What can we call the VOD market?
The first phrase that came to mind for me was disruptive technology or disruptive innovation.
In business, a disruptive innovation is an innovation that creates a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network, displacing established market-leading firms, products, and alliances.
"That's a novel idea for a TV series!"
Word to refer to the person who creates something that gets reused or remixed?
What is the word for using something for other than its intended purpose?
Is there a better word or phrase to describe a tangible and usable product?
What is the word for "demand something without saying it"?


Very often, folks want to refer to both the free and open source software communities in a way that is inclusive of and respectful of groups who identify with either term. Saying "free and open source software" is a mouthful. That said, there was no been consensus on what we should do instead.
The Wikipedia article on alternative terms for free software suggests that FOSS, F/OSS, FLOSS, and "software libre" are contenders. I've heard all. Of course, the choice of 4+ competing alternative terms is probably worse than the problem we were seeking to solve.
In academic circles, the big debate seems to be between FOSS and FLOSS. I was always a FOSS partisan. But I've seen increased momentum on the FLOSS side and I'm ready to declare that FLOSS has won.
I know it makes you think of dental hygiene and I agree that it is unfortunate. It wasn't my first choice either. But I can see where things are going. FLOSS Manuals and the folks at the FLOSS Research Group at Syracuse who launched the FLOSSHub and the associated FLOSS Papers deserve some of the credit.
If we can get over the irony of having spent so much time arguing over what was intended to be compromise terminology in the first place, lets see if we actually start talking to each other.
I, for one, welcome any comparison between FLOSS and dental hygiene. Flossing makes me feel amazing.
I'm just glad someone made up their mind! It's always distracting when describing to an "outsider" that they may have heard of some of the terms describing free software. Then I have to explain a difference between free software and "freeware". Suddenly, my conversation goes from "hey, here's cool stuff" to an exercise in semantics.
Now I'll just say "FLOSS". None of the plaque buildup like you get with proprietary software.
Any chance we can rally for consistency in the Ubuntu and Debian communities and media?
1. It combines all possible confusions. Language is never easy and Free Software as well as Open Source allow different interpretations. When you combine this terms you also combine all possible misunderstandings which makes it even harder to explain.
One example I have seen already a few times: "free" can mean free as in freedom and free as in gratis. That's two natural meanings. Now if you talk about "Free Open Source Software" many people see "free" as an adjective to Open Source Software. Hence they think FLOSS people talk about free as in gratis Open Source/Libre Software" (because the freedom aspect is already mentioned by the term libre). And People who talk about "Open Source" or "Libre Software" talk about commercial software. That's a missunderstandig I already heard and read many times.
Now you can mix in all the other miss understandigs, e.g. "Open Source means you can look at the code not less but also not more". And you can see what a uncontrollable composition of missunderstand you can create with FOSS or FLOSS.
For you and me it is not hard to read. We both know that "Open Source" and "Free Software" describes the same set of software. But what happens with people new to free software? They will seek a difference between foo and bar to explain why one is "free software" and the other one is "open source".
2. Especially form an academic point of few I consider it stupid to say 2 or 3 times the same. Open Source, Libre Software an Free Software describe the same set of software. That's become even more clear if you look at the history of this term but I don't think I have explain this to you and your readers.
So why should I say three times the same? If you talk about "potato" than france speaking people will call it "patate", german people will kall it "Kartoffel" and in some reagion of germany people will call it "Erdäpfel". But nobody would come to the conclusion to call it PPKE (potato/patate/kartoffel/erdäpfel) just to make everyone happy. Depending of the poeple who write it you will find texts which uses "potato", "kartoffel", etc. But nobody will use all terms a once.
So why should we do this if we talk about free software (you see, that's my term of choice)? People who prefer the term free software can use this term if they talk in non english language they may translate it, e.g. "freie software", "logical libre",… People who prefer Open Source can use this term and also translate it sometimes in their mother tongue, e.g "quellenoffene software".
In my view It's much less confusion than mentioning three times the same, combine all possible missunderstandings and let people think that there must be some differences if there are none.
So I always suggest to people to use the term they like. Be it "free software", "open source", or any translation of this term. But they should make a decision and than use it continuously.
Especially in science clear thinking is important. And i think to think clearly it's not helpful to mention three times the same but use one term and stick to the term and his definition.
That's the two main reasons I'm in favor of "Open Source" or "Free Software". People should pick on and keep it. Even if I'm definitely a "free software guy" I prefer if people speak continiously about "Open Source" rather than mix both terms or use acronyms like FOSS or FLOSS.
Continuously is the key and not to say three times the same or mix up the terms just to "make everyone happy".
Momentum around my homeland Cádiz is to call it Software Libre, but that's because of being Spaniards. :))) The issue goes with English speakers and, more importantly, English speakers who are users.
I sort of speak English so whatever it is, my voice would go that it should include a big F for freedom or a big L for libertad… Actually it is not such a disgrace to borrow the term Libre (which is not tainted with ambiguity and as a plus comes from Latin, a common root for both English and Spanish languages). However, users and supporters will decide through time.
Also, capitalization is a good thing from a marketing point of view. Let we make it big, that's how they like in the market, ain't it?
Obviously not everyone will like that approach and avoid calling it Free or Libre, but they are free to do that too. Open Source is discarded to engulf the other terms because it has proven not to speak about freedom at all. That will stay so provided there is people standing fast and defending their digital Freedom.
Enough said. Be well in Freedom… Long live Floss or whatever rocks most!
We started to take care of our teeth a long time ago. No, OK, seriously, in EU the winner was clear since some years ago the EU Commission adopted the term FLOSS to design any kind of software released under a libre software license. Note that I also prefer libre software, perhaps because I'm Spanish, and I work for the LibreSoftware group, (for this time, at least, Spanish looks like the best language to convey the essence of the whole movement).
Muy buen aporte. también estoy trabajando en el tema. Gracias.


This week the global plastics flows topic made the news and social media with the publication of the EU Plastics Strategy and Chancellor Philip Hammond presenting the United Kingdom's plan for tackling plastic waste.
Ellen MacArthur Foundation has long been active in research and awareness building in this field. It aims at supporting a transition to a circular economy. The foundation tweeting under @circulareconomy contributed this Sankey diagram. It is from a 2016 report they produced together with the World Economic Forum and McKinsey.
The Sankey diagram shows indeed, that "today, plastic packaging material flows are largely linear". This beautifully crafted diagram had already caught my attention back in 2016 when I first saw it.
I stuck to the original layout and design as closely as possible, using the same color codes and even the white all caps font. While transfering the numbers (all percentage values, so no issue there), it immediately became clear to me what caused my irritation. Can you identify it yourself by comparing the two pics?
Won't give it away now and wait for your comments. Will post the answers to this small 'spot-the-difference contest' here next week.
[Edit 24 Jan] Blog reader 'First!' was the first to comment and point out that the 2% recycling flow does not seem to be to scale (i.e too wide / overemphasized) in the Sankey diagram published by Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and possibly the same issue with the two arrows representing 14% each.
Just another quick Sankey diagram before the weekend. This beautifully crafted black&white diagram is from a scientific article 'Exergy assessment of a cogeneration system with micro-turbine and absorption chiller' by Martínez Reyes et.al. published in Proceedings of COBEM 2005 (18th International Congress of Mechanical Engineering).
This is for a cogeneration system with a 30 kWe gas micro-turbine and a 35 kWt absorption chiller. Flows are in kW with a scale of 1 cm = 100 kW in the original size. Good handling of the loop flow.
The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) is an association of the minerals industry. In this AusIMM Bulletin article titled 'From Waste to Wealth' they talk about metal recovery and recycling in Australia.
This Sankey diagram (actually two Sankey diagrams) from the article visualizes metal flows in Australia in 2012/2013 based on data from Golev & Corder (2014).
The smaller yellow diagram section on the left actually just shows mining activities in Australia and the fact that the largest portion of mining output (ores) are exported. Only 7.5 Mt are processed within Australia. This Sankey arrow is then blown up and corresponds to the yellow input stream into the second diagram [a similar solution to decouple diagrams with different scales was presented in yesterday's post].
In the metal production process there are losses, and material is being exported and imported. The annual increase to the Australian 'in use stocks' (i.e. metals being used infrastructure, buildings and products) is 12 Mt, possible only thanks to 7 Mt metals imports. Some 7 Mt of metals are also released annually from 'in use stocks'.
The dotted lines signal that there are possible routes, but either outside the scope of the Australian market or no reliable data is available (new scrap from the manufacturing step being fed back to the smelting).
In this post on rare earths I have recently featured an alluvial diagram depicting rare earths use from a presentation by T.E.Graedel (Yale). That same presentation also lead me to another article by X. Du & T.E. Graedel titled 'Uncovering the Global Life Cycles of the Rare Earths Elements' (open access) that has a number of circular flow diagrams I would call "REE wheels".
The article describes how quantitative data on rare earths is available for mining and processing, but "very little quantitative information is available concerning the subsequent life cycle stages". Also, data is mostly available for the overall REE production, but not individually for every single rare earth element. They therefore aim to estimate and approximate the quantities for ten REEs, based on sources from China and Japan.
The diagram can be read from 7 o'clock to 5 o'clock in a clockwise direction. The processing steps are "Mi" (mining), "S" (separation), "F"(fabrication), "Ma" (manufacturing), "U" (use) and "W" (waste management), thus showing the flow of the rare earth element through the economic cycle.
I did a Sankey diagram version of the above Yttrium REE wheel to have the arrow magnitude representing the quantities. Flows are in Gigagrams (million metric tons) per year.
Due to the fact that the arrows connect horizontally and vertically to the node (and do not run diagonally like in the original) my remake looks less "circular" somehow… in fact it resembles more one of those retro indoor AM/FM loop antennas you would hook to your HiFi. So I am not fully satisfied with the outcome. Would it be better if the nodes were tilted 45°?
What's nice is that the extraction of ore (17.4 Gg) can be directly compared to the 2.9 Gg Yttrium release to the environment. I switched ore input and tailings output at the mining node to have them side-by-side.
Comments and improvement suggestions welcomed.
Austrian technical consulting firm pro-wel offers process engineering services to its customers. Their website features two Sankey diagrams, one of which is a rare circular one with curved arrows (see others).
I also like the technical frame around the diagram, a must have in engineering and architecture.


Recorded in Bremen, Germany in 1978 You Don't Come Close captures Ramones at their finest. Unlike many live recordings Burning Airlines has uncovered this offering boasts comparatively excellent audio quality. The liner notes are entertaining and informative but unfortunately, the running time of the music portion of this multimedia album is a mere 21 minutes. That's attributable to the succinctness of Ramones songs although it certainly would be nice to hear a few more minutes from this legendary band during their heyday.


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Deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley on Monday asserted it was "false" that the Trump administration had instituted a policy of separating families at the border immediately before contradicting himself, admitting to and justifying that exact policy.
Aside from Gidley's admission that the Trump administration has begun to systematically separate parents from children who are apprehended at the border — a result of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' April order to U.S. attorneys to institute a "zero tolerance" criminal prosecution policy for border crossers — the White House spokesperson told several lies during the interview.
For one, Democrats have not said immigrant families cannot be detained. In fact, the Obama administration expanded administrative — not criminal — detention centers for families awaiting immigration proceedings (it was criticized from the left for doing so, and a judge ultimately ordered an end to the practice). And as Vox's Dara Lind notes, there are lots of alternatives to detention: Immigration authorities can release families together while ensuring they show up to immigration court dates — with ankle bracelets, for example, and watchful case officers.
That's not true. The Trump administration went until early April without a declared policy of criminally prosecuting everyone apprehended at the border. Sessions made a choice to institute the new "zero tolerance" policy, superseding the previous policy of not systematically prosecuting parents who came to the border with children.
On @foxandfriends, @hogangidley45 flatly denies that Trump administration is separating families (that's a lie), adds more lies: "This is all the Democrats' doing… this is up to the Democrats, they could fix this right now."


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Tell me again how increasing abortion access will save lives.
Sometimes a headline makes you stop and shake your head in wonder at who could have written such a thing in good conscience. On September 27, a United Nations news headline read: Repealing anti-abortion laws would save the lives of nearly 50,000 women a year – UN experts
The assertion is made that unsafe abortion practices result in the deaths of approximately 50,000 women worldwide each year. UN experts recommend removing barriers, discrimination and any criminalization of abortion to remedy this problem. "We cannot tolerate the severe violation of women's human rights on the basis of their sex and biological differences," said the experts.
But wait. I don't mean to demean the 50,000 preventable deaths from unsafe abortions – preventable deaths are always sad and worth examining. In Canada alone, however, abortion numbers are estimated at 100,000 per year, as our flag display so vividly illustrated in Manitoba recently. In the United States, that number jumps to at least 700,000, if not closer to a million.
That's only two countries in this big wide world! If we assume half of those aborted babies are girls (and it's likely actually more than half), we very quickly get to at least half a million women who are never given a chance at life.
Further, to claim that we cannot tolerate differences for women on the basis of their sex is to say we cannot tolerate the difference that defines them as women. Women are made with a biological gift, not a curse, and as long as we continue to treat abortion access as a necessity, we continue to further the illusion that pregnancy and childbearing are a curse of which the effects must be minimized.
To suggest that repealing anti-abortion laws will actually save the lives of women is misleading, inaccurate, or downright delusional. Abortion never saves lives: abortion is, by definition, the taking of a life. The United Nations continues to push on a global scale the Western view of abortion as integral to success for women and, as such, they do nothing to improve any women's lives in a meaningful way.
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Climate: Zimbabwe enjoys a wonderfully temperate climate year round. The cool, dry months (May to October) have warm, sunny days and cold, clear nights. The low lying areas of the south and the Zambezi Valley to the north and west, experience warm temperatures year round. The rainy season lasts about three months, sometime between November and April.
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country in Southern Africa which offers an astounding variety of natural beauty and spectacular scenery. The country holds great appeal for active adventurers, outdoor enthusiasts and those with an appreciative eye for exquisite beauty – from the majesty of the famous Victoria Falls to the giant marble like boulders of the Motopo Hills and the verdant mountains of the Eastern Highlands, from National Parks teeming with wildlife, to the Great Zimbabwe ancient ruins.
Victoria Falls is Zimbabwe's most popular tourist destination and one of the greatest natural wonders of the world. Their one mile and half wide curtain of water plunges deep into the Zambezi Gorge creating a cloud of mist that can be seen up to miles away. The area is renowned for being the 'adventure capital of Africa', offering a variety of high adrenaline activities, including one of the wildest days of white water rafting on earth, and bungee jump into the Zambezi River gorge from the bridge linking Zimbabwe to Zambia.
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The disillusionment of grad students suggests that it might very well be.
The fact of the matter is that, within academia, the pursuit of prestige and the advancement of political agendas trump everything else. Disinterested scholarship is very difficult to find. The sheen of respectability contained in the widely-touted fiction of "the academy" as a fellowship of seekers in pursuit of "truth" is but a thin veneer masking a cutthroat reality that a Blackwater or Syncrude executive would instantly recognize.
My own experience in the last several years since completing my doctorate has shown that university departments are environments of distrust where motives are seldom transparent, where the personality cult reigns supreme, and where success in a fictional job market depends on your ability to leverage the latest academic trend.
My first thought upon reading the comment was: Wow, this is what pursuing a PhD does to people nowadays? Turns them cynical and disillusioned?
Signs of this disillusionment can be found everywhere, from the scathingly cynical "So you want to get a PhD in the humanities" video (created by a doctoral student) to the more gentle cynicism of the very popular "Piled Higher and Deeper" (P.H.D., get it?) comic strip.
The editorial does not address the prospects for PhD holders in the social sciences and humanities, but I would suggest that their plight is, if anything, even gloomier.
Imagine bright young things entering a new kind of science PhD, in which both they and their supervisors embrace from the start the idea that graduates will go on to an array of demanding careers – government, business, non-profit and education – and work towards that goal. The students meet supervisors from a range of disciplines; they acquire management, communication, leadership and other transferable skills alongside traditional academic development of critical thinking and analysis.
Amusingly, I find your article to be more cynical than the comment which served as its impetus. Sure, the comment was bitter — and, like many that share its sympathies, possibly came from a graduate who is unwilling to radically relocate for their academic career — but the pragmatism expressed in your piece masks a defeated acceptance of the current academic status quo.
I agree that we should produce less PhDs, but we should also work to ensure more academic positions are created and maintained. Enrollment is up in most schools, yet hiring is down. The neoliberalization of the academy — a phenomenon that goes unreported in your piece — is partly to blame for the lack of job opportunities for PhDs.
Unfortunately, the academy remains one of, if not the ONLY place where thinking for oneself is a viable career, and thus the link between doctoral study and a career in academia should not be so easily renounced.
So, rather than acquiesce to the budget and staffing reductions that are becoming increasingly pervasive in academia, or reduce the critical component of doctoral work so as to render graduates more compatible with non-academic careers, graduate students should reclaim the activist mantle they once held and agitate — in an ironically entrepreneurial way — in order to create the jobs that we will one day hold.
These comments by graduate students say it all. And they should know – they are the ones paying tuition and jumping through the hoops to get the degrees, only to discover that their efforts and expenses have been a waste. They are the ones scouring websites for jobs that don't exist, scrambling to earn income above the poverty line, and experiencing the sting of being rejected even for low-level jobs that they they are well overqualified for. They are the ones who are lucky to land sessional work at a university and, in doing so, fulfil their dream of teaching, only to have tenure track professors exclude and belittle them, and make them feel like second class citizens.
The PhD is broken because the education that one receives for the degree is not valued anymore in our society or economy. Academics nowadays is a largely irrelevant, insular, tail-chasing exercise designed to satisfy other academics in position of power. It wouldn't be so bad if it was only part of a rite of passage one had to endure in order to earn a degree, but it's not. After graduation, there are no options for graduates, no academic job market to turn to, now or in the future, nor any non-academic jobs they can use their degrees for. Overproduction of grads only makes it all of this worse. All of this is a dirty secret that faculty do a masterful job of hiding from students.
I'm not holding out much hope for change to come from within higher ed. The graduate student really has become fodder for a system which is fundamentally broken. Others have described it as a ponzi scheme and I tend to agree. Faculty, depts, admin all rely too much on graduate student tuition, grant money, and cheap sessional labour for reform to ever occur from within.
The future? I expect to see Canadian universities start to go the direction as those in the US – politicians and policy-makers will increasingly assume more control of higher education and show some tough love by slashing budget, laying off faculty, and realigning priorities in higher ed. I welcome the change.
I'm a young professor of engineering and one of the problems that I see at my institution is that there is no forced retirement. Having a mandatory retirement age and not giving lab space to emeritus professors would be a good step to opening more positions for the young and energetic.
It is depressing when one's former students can't get jobs in universities. Part of the answer is indeed that we need to hire more although I would hate to see that happen in a post-secondary world divided between big (or small) undergrad teaching institutions and research-intensive institutions.
At the same time a university post is by no means the only one (at least for social scientists and probably humanists) that can offer stimulating employment. There are interesting possiblities working for critical public policy institutes, IGOs, NGOs and INGOs among others where the critical intellectual challenges are there too.
"i AGREE THAT WE SHOULD PRODUCE less PhDs"? wow. Fewer, yes. Less (and in comparison to what do think our PhDs should be lessER?), no. I am currently co-supervising an Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies PhD student who landed a half-time position at the local college at the same time as she was completing her IGS MA. SInce e-publication, her MA thesis has been consulted over 6,250 times worldwide. And that bodes very well for her and for me. And that bodes very well for UBC Okanagan where I am stationed and for Okanagan College where she is working. Are you kidding that we should be producing fewer PhDs? I would say better quality PhDs. Also, an applicant from the Ukraine is applying to work on her IGS PhD under my supervision beginning next fall. Are you kidding when you try to say our PhDs are not high quality, top shelf material? But it is true that the person makes the PhD and not the other way around. And it is true that we have high quality PhDs (mine is from Queen's at Kingston 1997), AND it is also VERY TRUE that we need to set out a plan to create and not just react to the immanent Knowledge economy, if we wish to help our freshly minted PhDs become leaders of tomorrow in that economy. 20 habits of mind by TC2, Balcaen et al, come to mind as a starting point for not guessing what kinds of jobs will exist 10 years from now, but for preparing our PhD students and indeed all our students for the wave of the future. Catching that wave is up to us as their supervisors and up to them as students of a lifelong learning and teaching path. In or out of academe, which is currently bursting at the seams but soon will be depleted as demographics in Canada and everywhere in the world does the old Marxian upside down pear tree flip, and we have 5 or 6 profs for every 2 or 1.4 students. Even we profs of the new X generation had better find new and better ways to work and help create the knowledge economy. It is coming and coming fast, whether we want it to or not.


The green building industry in Vietnam may still be in a nascent stage compared to its Asian neighbours, but it has certainly been gaining traction in recent years. Alongside Vietnam's stunning economic growth of the last decade - averaging 6.4 per cent per year - and with environmental sustainability as a Millennium Development Goal for the country, an interest in going green has slowly but surely developed.
The establishment of the Vietnam Green Building Council (VGBC) in 2007 was a landmark event for Vietnam's green building industry. In a recent article, Melissa Merryweather, chair of VGBC, stated: "In this country there has been a lot of talk saying 'sustainable buildings are so expensive' and that's utter nonsense. People who've said that don't really know much about sustainable construction."
Education about the benefits of building green is therefore a top priority for VGBC. The non-profit, which strives to raise awareness about the benefits of going green, educates young architects, engineers, building owners, local government and businesses about anything and everything one needs to know about developing the best sustainability practices.
It also aims to dispel incorrect information about going green, such as exaggerated estimates on the costs of sustainable building.
The latter concern is of particular significance, as Vietnam is currently experiencing a massive boom in construction. According to BCI Asia and CBRE Group Inc., the number of projects currently under construction totals 381, and is set to increase to an estimated 582 over the next 15 years. With the help of VGBC, major projects have been implemented and companies are becoming more educated and aware of the sustainable options available.
The burgeoning demand for green infrastructure and buildings is set to be a major theme at this year's Vietbuild International Exhibition. Focusing on the construction, real estate, building materials and interior and exterior decoration industries, the annual event is the biggest exhibition of its kind in Vietnam and will feature new advanced solutions and products on sustainable building design, construction and operations.
More than 800 companies from 22 countries worldwide - including South Korea, Japan, Thailand, USA, France and Sweden - will showcase their latest products and services at some 2340 booths set up in the exhibition. Vietbuild 2015 will also feature seminars on new construction technologies and products.
Among the key international companies at the exhibition, Panasonic will showcase some of its latest offerings for the residential market. Products that will be on display include a diverse and stylish array of wiring devices (such as switches and sockets), which aim to create a safer yet trendier interior for the modern home, energy-efficient LED lighting fixtures for the environmentally conscious consumer, and a variety of fans and water pumps designed for creating a comfortable and cosy environment.
Items will be displayed in different areas of the booth - primarily living room, kitchen and bedroom environments - to help visitors better visualise how the products can be seamlessly integrated into sustainable design standards.
Home owners, interior designers and property developers will be able to clearly see how much value can be added to a home that is being designed or upgraded with Panasonic's unique building solutions.
For more information about how Panasonic's advanced solutions can benefit your home, we invite you to join us at our booth located at the Hall-A of Vietbuild 2015 -Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC). The exhibition will be open every day from 1-5 September 2015, 8.30am to 7.00pm. Admission is free.


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PCCW launching IPO tomorrow, say sources
Hong Kong's PCCW Group reportedly plans to launch an initial public offering (IPO) of its telecoms business tomorrow (Wednesday 9 November 2011), two anonymous sources 'with direct knowledge of the plans' told Reuters today. The IPO plan involves spinning off PCCW's telecoms assets to form Hong Kong's first investment trust (or business trust), to be called HKT Trust. The conglomerate will list so-called 'share stapled units', with each single unit of PCCW's telecoms business comprising a unit of HKT Trust, a preference share in Hong Kong-based telecoms operating company HKT Limited and an interest in ordinary shares of HKT Limited held by a 'trustee manager' (expected to be an affiliate of PCCW). The business trust model is aimed at raising cash from investors (unit holders) without relinquishing control.
PCCW started pre-marketing the deal on 25 October to investors in Asia, Europe and the US. The IPO could raise between USD1.2 billion and USD1.4 billion, said Reuters' sources, while PCCW has indicated that HKT Trust will have a minimum market capitalisation of USD3.7 billion and distribute at least USD330 million to unit holders in 2012.
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In response to the emails received today we have received an update on the Sacraments of Baptism, First Holy Communion, and Confirmation. Unfortunately it's not good news as from July 5th the Sacraments will not be taking place. Bishop Fintan on advice from government has written to all Priests of diocese stating how disappointing the …
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Just an update on the latest news on Sacraments of Baptism, First Holy Communion, &Confirmation , Fr John has been informed by Bishop Fintan following advice from government the celebration of Baptism, First Holy Communion and Confirmation should not take place from Monday July 5th until later on when we will be informed it is …
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Bishops thank the public for generous support of Trócaire's Lenten campaign
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Following their Summer General Meeting, the Irish Catholic Bishops thanked the public for its continued generosity to Trócaire which works in support of people affected by poverty, conflict and injustice worldwide. Bishops noted that Trócaire's support brought positive change to the lives of 2.7 million people in 25 countries over the course of the last …
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Appeal for priests to assist in this year's Croagh Patrick Pilgrimage Season
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Pope Francis thanks Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI for his continuing service
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In his homily for the solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Pope Francis reflected on the central point: "Peter and Paul were free because they were set free". Holy Mass in Saint Peter's Basilica was celebrated in the presence of bishops and cardinals as well as a delegation from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, led by …
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Bishops encourage Catholics to continue to support a programme of vaccination
At their Summer General Meeting, which concluded earlier this month, bishops renewed their message of encouragement to Catholics to support a programme of vaccination, not only for their own good, but for the protection of life and the health of those who are vulnerable. Bishops acknowledged the hard work that has been done in both jurisdictions …
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Pope Francis receives US Secretary of State
Pope Francis on Monday morning received US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, in the Vatican. Responding to questions put to him by journalists, the Director of the Holy See Press Office said the audience took place in a cordial atmosphere. Matteo Bruni explained that it lasted about 40 minutes and that "it offered the Pope the …
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Reek Pilgrimage on Croagh Patrick to be four-days per week in July
The annual Reek Sunday Pilgrimage on Croagh Patrick, which was cancelled last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, will be going ahead this year albeit in a much extended format from Wednesday to Saturday, 1- 31 July. Pilgrims are asked to plan their climb well in advance, and to choose a weekday when Croagh Patrick …
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